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Agenda. Introduction FPDS-NG Atom Feeds Demo Feedback & Questions. Introduction. Evolution of data dissemination methods 2000 and earlier – Flat files with fixed positions (for ex. CSV and fixed length files) 2001 to 2004 – Flat files with flexible formats (for ex. XML formats)
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Agenda • Introduction • FPDS-NG Atom Feeds • Demo • Feedback & Questions
Introduction • Evolution of data dissemination methods • 2000 and earlier – Flat files with fixed positions (for ex. CSV and fixed length files) • 2001 to 2004 – Flat files with flexible formats (for ex. XML formats) • 2004 to 2008 – Data feeds using web-services • 2008 onwards – Data Feeds using ATOM
FPDS-NG Atom Feed • FPDS-NG Atom feeds are based on industry standard Atom 1.0 format • Detail Atom feed specification is defined at • http://www.fpdsng.com/wiki/index.php/Atom_Feed_Specifications 4
FPDS-NG Atom Feed • Atom feeds are configurable to search using all the data elements defined in the FPDS-NG V1.4 data dictionary • Payload includes the detailed contract information • Data is paginated • 10 Complete Award/IDVs per page • Next and previous
FPDS-NG Atom Feed • The public ATOM feed site is https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q • Your search criteria would be appended to this url. For example, if you wanted data from a specific data, for a specific agency you would enter: • https://beta.fpdsng.com/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q=LAST_MOD_DATE:[2006/04/02, 2007/04/02] AGENCY_CODE:"4740" • If you are unsure of the data element tags you can use the ezSearch advanced search function to assist you. • Go to https:\\www.fpds.gov and activate the ezSearch function. • Click on the Advanced Search button and then click on Add (see slide 8) • Select the data element(s) and provide the criteria for those elements (see slide 9) 7
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FPDS-NG ATOM FEED Copy the part of the url that speaks to your search critera (see below)
FPDS-NG ATOM FEED • Paste that criteria in public atom feed url: • Public atom feed: https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q • Examle of a Public atom feed with the criteria pasted in: https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q=+%20AGENCY_CODE%3A%221406%22 Readers: • Any feed reader can be used to pull the data • Use wget to pull the information